Erdoğan Bayraktar (born 10 October 1948 in

Trabzon Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. The city was founded in 756 BC as "Trapezous" by colonists from Miletus. It was added into the Achaemenid E ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

) is a Turkish politician. He is the former Minister of Environment and Urban Planning of Turkey under Prime Minister

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister of Turkey, prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Jus ...

's government and member of parliament for

from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), resigning from both offices on 25 December 2013. He was the president of the government-established Mass Housing Development Administration, before being elected as an MP. His appointment to the ministry was declared by Prime minister

on 6 July 2011 with the other members of the new cabinet. He gained his bachelor's degree from Istanbul State Engineering and Architectural Academy. Then he got his graduate degree from

Istanbul University Istanbul University, also known as University of Istanbul (), is a Public university, public research university located in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded by Mehmed II on May 30, 1453, a day after Fall of Constantinople, the conquest of Constantinop ...

civil engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

. Between the years 1973 and 1994, he worked as a

general contractor A contractor (North American English) or builder (British English), is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of a construction site, management of vendors and trades, and the communication of information to all involved parties throughout the c ...

. During his

military service Military service is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, air forces, and naval forces, whether as a chosen job (volunteer military, volunteer) or as a result of an involuntary draft (conscription). Few nations, such ...

(between 1977 and 1979), he worked as the deputy head of controls and controlled the constructions of 6,000 military lodgements. He was elected to the

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough cou ...

s of

Eminönü Eminönü, historically known as Pérama, is a predominantly commercial waterfront area of Istanbul within the Fatih district near the confluence of the Golden Horn with the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait and the Sea of Marmara. It is l ...

and

Istanbul Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ...

for the term of 1989–1999. He was appointed to the presidency of KİPTAŞ which is a municipal company of construction to divert funds of the public to his own children. Bayraktar attended to a 10-month-course of foreign language and constructing technologies in the United States in 1999. After his return, he worked at several positions in

Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

Metropolitan Municipality. In December 2002, he became the president of TOKİ. On March 10, 2011, he resigned from his post to be eligible in the forthcoming

elections An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated ...

. He is married, and has five children.

2013 corruption scandal

On 17 December 2013, his son Abdullah Oğuz Bayraktar was detained as a consequence of a corruption operation. Bayraktar resigned both as a minister and a member of parliament on the afternoon of 25 December, denying all allegation against himself but saying that Prime Minister

should resign as well, as everything he was accused of was done on the Prime Minister's direction.İşte Bayraktar'dan bomba açıklama
''Posta''. 25 December 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bayraktar, Erdogan 1948 births Living people Politicians from Trabzon Yıldız Technical University alumni Istanbul University alumni Turkish civil engineers Government ministers of Turkey Ministers of public works of Turkey Deputies of Trabzon Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey